Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 13th May 2022Case name: 2022_05_13-ATL052
Situation: 57 travellers in distress in the Atlantic Sea, intercepted by the Moroccan navy.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Sea
Summary of the case: On Friday the 13th of May 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 57 travellers, including 19 women and five children, in distress in the Atlantic Sea. The travellers had left the previous day at around 04.00 CEST from Boujdour on a rubber boat. We managed to reach the travellers who told us that their boat was losing air, that the weather was bad and that they urgently needed rescue. They gave us their GPS position and we immediately relayed all the information we had to the Moroccan rescue authorities who confirmed that they would commence a search and rescue operation. After this, we were no longer able to reach the travellers. At 01.15 CEST the Moroccan rescue authorities informed us that the Moroccan navy had picked up the travellers and that everyone was safe.
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